“What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God’s glory exalted in our everlasting joy.” -Piper
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” -Chan
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” -CS Lewis
“Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.” -Chan
“Let this be to you the mark of true gospel preaching – where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus.” -Charles Spurgeon
“The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. God is forever what at that moment, three thousand years ago, He told Moses that He was.” -J.I. Packer
“Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.” -Jim Elliot
“What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.” -J.I. Packer
“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.” -Piper
“The death of Christ paid the debt of our unrighteousness, and the obedience of Christ provided the righteousness we needed to be justified.” -Piper
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” -C.S. Lewis
“God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him.” -Jim Elliot
“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -CS Lewis
“Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.” -Piper
“If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.” -Piper
“It is better to lose your life than to waste it.” -Piper
“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?” -Piper
“God answers the prayers that ultimately lead to our making much more of Him.”
“The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.” -Piper
“Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.” -Chan
“It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.” -Piper
“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.” -Piper
“What you pray for indicates where your heart is.”
